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    The Conservation of Races The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 2
    The Conservation of Races The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 2
    The Conservation of Races The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 2
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    The Conservation of Races The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 2

    By W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

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      Title: The Conservation of Races

      The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 2

      Author: W. E. Burghardt Du Bois

      Release Date: February 11, 2010 [EBook #31254]

      Language: English

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      The American Negro Academy

      Occasional Papers, No. 2.

      The Conservation of Races.

      BY

      W. E. BURGHARDT Du BOIS.

      WASHINGTON, D. C.

      Published by the Academy.

      1897.

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      Announcement

      The American Negro Academy believes that upon those of the race who have had the advantages of higher education and culture, rests the responsibility of taking concerted steps for the employment of these agencies to uplift the race to higher planes of thought and action.

      Two great obstacles to this consummation are apparent: (a) The lack of unity, want of harmony, absence of a self-sacrificing spirit, and no well-defined line of policy seeking definite aims; and (b) The persistent, relentless, at times covert opposition employed to thwart the Negro at every step of his upward struggles to establish the justness of his claim to the highest physical, intellectual and moral possibilities.

      The Academy will, therefore, from time to time, publish such papers as in their judgment aid, by their broad and scholarly treatment of the topics discussed the dissemination of principles tending to the growth and development of the Negro along right lines, and the vindication of that race against vicious assaults.

      THE CONSERVATION OF RACES.

      The American Negro has always felt an intense personal interest in discussions as to the origins and destinies of races: primarily because back of most discussions of race with which he is familiar, have lurked certain assumptions as to his natural abilities, as to his political, intellectual and moral status, which he felt were

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